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  • 21reason — I. n. 1. Intellect, mind, sense, understanding, rational faculty, conception, judgment, intuitional faculty, thinking principle, intellectual powers or faculties, discursive power or faculty. 2. Cause, ground, principle, motive, consideration,… …

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  • 22Mansion of Many Apartments — The Mansion of Many Apartments is a metaphor that the poet John Keats expressed in a letter to John Hamilton Reynolds dated Sunday, 3 May 1818. I compare human life to a large Mansion of Many Apartments, two of which I can only describe, the… …

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  • 23Muga-mushin — Still the patterning of consciousness![1] Muga mushin (無我無心? …

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  • 24intellect — n. Understanding, reason, mind, sense, brains, thinking principle, reasoning faculty, rational faculty, discursive faculty, intellectual powers, intellectual faculties, cognitive faculty, cognitive powers, power of cognition …

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  • 25sense — n. 1. Faculty of perception. 2. Feeling, sensation, perception. 3. Intellect, mind, understanding, reason, brains, thinking principle. 4. Discernment, perception, apprehension, understanding, appreciation, feeling, recognition, tact. 5. Opinion,… …

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  • 26understanding — n. 1. Intellect, mind, reason, sense, brains, thinking principle, reasoning faculty, rational faculty, discursive faculty, intellectual powers, intellectual faculties. 2. Intelligence, apprehension, comprehension, perception, knowledge,… …

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  • 27wit — n. 1. Intellect, understanding, mind, sense, reason, genius, mental power, intellectual faculties, thinking principle, mother wit. 2. Quick perception (as of partial resemblance in things mostly unlike), keen discernment, acumen, penetration,… …

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  • 28mind — I. n. 1. Soul, spirit, inner man. 2. Intellect, understanding, reason, sense, brains, thinking principle, intellectual powers, common sense, intellectual faculties. 3. Disposition, cast of thought. 4. Inclination, disposition, will, wish, liking …

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  • 29Pythagoreans and Eleatics — Edward Hussey PYTHAGORAS AND THE EARLY PYTHAGOREANS Pythagoras, a native of Samos, emigrated to southern Italy around 520, and seems to have established himself in the city of Croton. There he founded a society of people sharing his beliefs and… …

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  • 30ethics — /eth iks/, n.pl. 1. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) a system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture. 2. the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.: medical ethics;… …

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